Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engros…

Thomas Browne
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Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own, I may more easily discuss them; for in mine own reason, and within myself, I can command that which I cannot entreat without myself, and within the circle of another. ✨ Sir Thomas Browne (1835). Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Including His Life and Correspondence, p.97
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